A Profound Journey
Est. 1995
Articles published in 2011.
Guy Ritchie's second Holmes is bigger, louder and built around the rivalry the first film was missing, with Jared Harris quietly stealing it as Moriarty. Noisier than the original but more entertaining for it. 8/10.
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Spielberg goes fully digital and rediscovers the boyish adventure register of his Indiana Jones days. The faces take some getting used to; the momentum never lets up. 8/10.
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Steven Soderbergh treats a global pandemic as a procedural, cool and credible and almost clinically unsentimental. It is gripping and intelligent, if a little cold to love. 7/10.
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Nicolas Winding Refn turns a pulpy getaway thriller into a slow, neon-lit mood piece, anchored by a near-silent Ryan Gosling and a synth score you carry home with you. Cool to the point of chilly, but hard to shake. 8/10.
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A Swedish director and a near-flawless British ensemble compress le Carré's densest novel into a cold, watchful, endlessly rewatchable piece of espionage. 9/10.
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J. J. Abrams hands Steven Spielberg's old Amblin keys back and drives the car beautifully. A train wreck, a small town, a pack of kids and a monster, all in the summer of 1979. 9/10.
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A franchise nobody was asking to revisit comes back as a quiet tragedy about one clever chimpanzee, and Andy Serkis turns a digital ape into the most human thing on screen. 8/10.
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Marvel takes its least fashionable hero back to 1942 and lets Joe Johnston make an honest wartime adventure out of him. Sincere, handsome and endlessly rewatchable, it is better than its slightly grudging reception suggests. 9/10.
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Matthew Vaughn drags the X-Men back to 1962 and hands the franchise to two terrific actors. A stylish, confident reboot that I admired more than I loved. 7/10.
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Joe Cornish turns a South London estate into a siege movie, and a teenage mugger into a hero, with more nerve and wit than its budget has any right to. 8/10.
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